Chronicles

Texts on travel and international politics around the globe

1336 articles

The future of Egypt: Modernity and fundamentalism "?

Outside the resorts, villages are miserable and children threw stones at motorists. Cairo, congested and wrapped in a permanent haze; the capital of the Arab world has forsaken God. It seems that the sweepers take twenty years to strike.

byMiquel Silvestre

2 February, 2011

Jaffa: Sea Mosque

Founded as the Bible by Japheth, one of the sons of Noah, after the Flood, have gained from the pharaohs to the mythical Persian King David, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart "Napoleon. It Jaffa, the old city of Tel Aviv, one of the oldest ports in the world, boosting the minaret of the mosque of the sea on the vast blue of the Mediterranean.

byRicardo Coarasa

1 February, 2011

Himalayan bike or how to dilute the self-esteem in a nanosecond

We met him by chance on the streets of Lhasa hours before heading to Everest Base Camp. There Richard, Vitoria firefighter traveling alone. Going to make our own path, the 1.100 kilometers from the capital of Tibet in Kathmandu, but cycling. Way, be diverted to greet some friends to Sishapagma. Today I go to sleep feeling very small. Some people have a cataplines as eight thousand.

byRicardo Coarasa

31 January, 2011

Where do you hide the rockhopper penguin?

[st] In this windswept island walk around the beautiful Patagonian Rockhopper penguins, those…

byGerardo Bartolomé

30 January, 2011

Asia
Nature

Ghyaru, the valley of magical fairies and dragons

One thing I love about the mountain is that every morning you can re-breakfast with a good conscience. One gets up early and in pain, Coffee goes blind, cereal, muesly, porridge, fruit, sweet, Tibetan bread with honey and things like that ... And halfway through the day, to and re-fill to top.

byContributors

28 January, 2011

Riders for health: African Motorcycle

Solidarity with the Third World poses a risk: that its practical application in the field of adventurers trick is to escape the demands of work and social First. In Africa, Official solidarity white donors tend to travel in Toyota Land Cruiser.

byMiquel Silvestre

26 January, 2011

Will: «celestial» burials and the Spanish child-lama

The monk said a cliff above 4.000 meters, east of Sera monastery, where there is evident a rustic stone house. Tibetans, account, carry their dead at dawn to solitary cliffs like this to butcher them with an ax. The vultures and crows do the rest. In the land of no snow cemeteries.

byRicardo Coarasa

24 January, 2011

Estancia Cristina: coordinates of loneliness

I went in search of marine fossils that he knew were in the middle of the Andes. They were three hours of sailing on Lake Argentino, one of the world's most incredible. ¿Porqué? Because it looks like a squid, supported with an oval body in the desert steppe and its tentacles into the heart of the Andes glaciers fabulous finish.

byGerardo Bartolomé

23 January, 2011

South Africa: cigarette, theft and hugs

Back to walk down the street with guys who follow your trail asking you to give them something to justify their steps (are often hungry types, others with faces and, almost always, with serious alcohol problems); up to a new, empty bus because whites continue to use their cars and their minibus blacks ...

byJavier Brandoli

22 January, 2011

Asia
Nature

Ascent to heaven of the Annapurna

One of the most breathtaking of the mountains is his silence. Last night, at daybreak, bladder woke beset by, and ended up sitting, protected by twelve blankets, enjoy nothing and looking at the sky with binoculars little substance that I bought in Pokhara.

byContributors

21 January, 2011

Uganda: the last refuge of gorillas

In a corner of the world, in tropical forests that engulf borders, the last gorillas survive land. Go on your quest is a huge experience, unforgettable. We in Uganda, in Bwindi National Park, tracing the footsteps of these great primates to which, Ranger warns the Nkuringo, it is better not to make eye contact so they do not feel challenged. Here we go.

byRicardo Coarasa

19 January, 2011

The world's cheapest menu

Travel to Tibet and do not visit a Buddhist monastery is like being in Port Aventura and not the Dragon Khan ride or go to 'Lucio' for the first time and not asking about broken eggs. The advantage of a few days in Lhasa before entering the Himalayas, as well as gradually acclimate to the altitude, that makes no nonsense- is that in the vicinity of the capital of Tibet is located three of the most important: Drepung, Will there Ganden.

byRicardo Coarasa

17 January, 2011

Photo quiz from Patagonia

[st] What place is for this beautiful picture of Patagonia? Here's a hint: it is prodigal land…

byGerardo Bartolomé

16 January, 2011

The fucking "evil of Africa"

Back to Africa. Maybe back to Africa unless all imaginable Africas. In my Africa, on your skin, There are bars in which fuses look, linen napkin restaurants and painted lines on roads. All that awaits me back in Cape Town: European complexion, however, observed a black soul.

byJavier Brandoli

15 January, 2011

Asia
Nature

Annapurna, the challenge of the mountain

"But where will they go now, if four in the afternoon and at half past six is ??night? Not create problems and sleep today. Morning walk as they please ". The man's face is tanned by the claws of the mountain, and emphasizes its argument point-blank shooting: “Además, is a blizzard ".

byContributors

14 January, 2011

Selva de Oza: Crown of the Dead

Pyrenean forest of the Selva de Oza, in the province of Huesca, keeps the secret of our ancestors. One hundred stone circles are distributed in the shadows of pine and beech. ¿Antiguos graves? "Remains of cabins? The bold hypothesis, in view of the evidence that has survived since the Middle Ages, suggest that we are at the scene of a famous episode of uncertain location: the battle of Roncesvalles.

byRicardo Coarasa

11 January, 2011

The birthday party is not Tibet

The Chinese effort to celebrate in style on the establishment of the Lhasa Tibet Autonomous Region is, for the native population, something like the non-birthday of Alice in Wonderland. Pure paradox: a party where balloons only (Chinas banderolas, floats, an imposing stand in front of the Potala, slogans everywhere) and a cake with candles without blowing.

byRicardo Coarasa

10 January, 2011

Asia
Nature

Roadmap for the conquest of the Himalayas

Trekking el de los Annapurnas, walking at higher altitudes than can a human being before having to use climbing equipment to keep climbing, is the most wonderful adventure I had in my life.

byContributors

9 January, 2011

Africa on a bike. One million rocks

An authentic account of a motorcycle trip through Africa. A book detailing the reality of the black continent beyond the postcards and luxury safaris. En "Un millón de piedras" chewing desert dust, they suffer the corrupt, sometimes, African bureaucracy and finished the night drinking with the strange bedfellows who always invents the way.

byMiquel Silvestre

8 January, 2011

Lausanne: Zeus has the Dream Team

The sneakers with Jesse Owen humbled Hitler; revive the basketball final in Los Angeles 84; Eric Moussambani bathing suit ... All exciting sports history, from classical Greece, is in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.

byJavier Brandoli

5 January, 2011

Iguazú: the mirage that dazzled Cabeza de Vaca

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca begins a tortuous journey from the Brazilian jungle to help a Spanish group isolated in the current capital of Paraguay, Assumption. Find a solution to the Rio de la Plata, but runs into one of the most solemn wonders of nature, Iguazu Falls

byRicardo Coarasa

31 December, 2010

The odyssey of the toilet in Lhasa

At a glance, first thing that strikes is that the Barkhor kora is, while spiritual journey, a succession of street stalls, something like "golden mile" of Lhasa. A few feet of the pilgrims who wear their rosaries, of the monks who kneel extending his arms on the bare ground, merchants trading with tourists the price of souvenirs.

byRicardo Coarasa

27 December, 2010

Seven selected enclaves of African history (on my journey)

Tracing the history of Africa is not always an easy task. But, the continete has obvious symbolic places in which to understand a little more of his turbulent past. Here are seven that I spent.

byJavier Brandoli

26 December, 2010

Santa Maria Nova: Church gravestones speaking

Amid the urban center of a city surrounded by a river, the mountains and the signal from a nearby sea. A modern cemetery is to the left of the view, the first person to cross the street, then a fence and then fixed in a strange church. A church? A cemetery? Are both things at once?

byJavier Brandoli

24 December, 2010

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
Strengthen the foundation: Africa raises its voice	8,15/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10